TY - BOOK AU - AU - Warren,Donald R. TI - American teachers: histories of a profession at work SN - 9780029009635 AV - LB2832.2.A447 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - New York PB - Macmillan KW - Teachers KW - United States KW - History KW - Education KW - Teaching KW - Instructional and educational works N1 - "A Publication of the American Educational Research Association."; Includes index; Bibliography: page; IndianaTRODUCTION; Teachers, reformers, and historians; SECTION ONE: Those who taught and why; Who became teachers? : the social characteristics of teachers in American history; John L. Rury; Incentives and rewards to teaching; Susan B. Carter; SECTION TWO: Teacher workplaces; Child gardening: the teaching of young children in American schools; Barbara Beatty; The teacher in the country school; Wayne E. Fuller; Agents of democracy: urban elementary-school teachers and the conditions of teaching; James W. Fraser; Career ladders and the early public high school teacher : a study of inequality and opportunity; David F. Labaree; Teacher activism; Wayne J. Urban; SECTION THREE: Teacher education and certification; Teacher preparation in the nineteenth century: institutions and purposes; Jurgen Herbst; Teachers and teacher training in the twentieth century; William R. Johnson; "Let us go and buy a schoolmaster": historical perspectives on the hiring of teachers in the United States, 1750-1980; Michael W. Sedlak; SECTION FOUR: Issues and questions; Man/woman/teacher: gender, family, and career in American educational history; Geraldine Joncich Clifford; The history of Blacks in teaching: growth and decline within the profession; Linda M. Perkins; The persistence of reform in American schools; Larry Cuban; Practice and policy: notes on the history of instruction; David K. Cohen; The future of the past: what do we need to know about the history of teaching? / David Tyack; 2 N2 - With original contributions by leading experts, American Teachers is a critical synthesis of the most important current knowledge ER -